Certified Groo Expert Gary Grossmann says that, with the wrap-up of the latest Groo mini-series, there have now been 4,434 pages of Groo stories, 280 pages of text (letter columns, etc.) and 185 covers on American Groo comics, plus another 58 covers done for foreign or non-Groo publications. I find this scary.
Do you own a Tivo? If not, skip this item. If so: Do you know about the 30 second skip? This is an undocumented feature that you can have on your TiVo once you've received the 3.0 software update, which you probably have by now. To enable the command, you should be playing live TV. Then, on your remote, press Select, then Play, then Select, then the number three, then the zero, then Select again. After some of those presses, you'll hear a drumbeat sound but at the end, if you've done it correctly, you'll hear three bells. Now, if you're playing a program and you want to leap ahead thirty seconds, just press the "jump to the end" key. Press it four times and you zip through two minutes of laxative commercials. While you're in Fast Forward, the button will advance you to the next tick-mark. Neat. (If you reboot or have a power failure, you may need to re-enter these commands. Also, you can put things back the way they were before by entering the same codes again. There's also an undocumented command that allows you to sort the "Now Playing" screen alphabetically but I can't imagine why anyone would want to.)
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